Ok then, so you can perhaps see how, albeit the War of 1812 and the French and Indian War werent the same war and didnt change their respective societies in precisely the same ways…
The war of 1812 would ineed be a rather important milestone in Pre-Canadian history, from a Canadian point of view?
… The US special forces largely came about via actually copying a lot of Canadian notes on how to wage unconventional warfare, during/after WW2.
Canada probably does not need to be copying too many of other people’s notes.
Oh, so the French and Indian War was basically a massively important pre-Revolution war that later saw a lot of commanders and veterans from that war become commanders and soldiers and/or political figures in the Revolution…
And it massively shaped the overall martial culture of the colonies, the massive cost of it laid the ground work for justifying many of the specific taxes and policies that were later explictly rebelled against during the Revolution…
… it established and cemented territorial claims and boundaries, such that more complex and stable local and regional economies could either form or further solidify…
And it saw the beginnings of a collective identity that was seen as distinct and seperate from that of the overseas imperial homeland.
So you’re saying it was a massively important war that helped lay the groundwork for forming a nascent, collective, national identity.
… right?
… I think I used the phrase ‘national auto-lobotomy’ around back this time last year, when the tariff train started to get a’rollin.
… Do you think its a footnote…
… In Canadian history?
As an American who knows my own country’s history…
You have no idea how much I love citing that entire war as an example of how military adventurism can be very bad and stupid, and also an example of / push off point to go into how Canadians tend to significantly punch above their weight in basically all military conflicts they’ve been involved in.
Yeah, sit down GI Joe, lemme tell about the time we got our asses handed to us and lost nearly (or just actually?) every single land campaign of that entire war… to the Canadians.
(Or at least their forebearers, if we must be pedantic.)
Lemme tell ya about how US special forces came about as a collaborative effort of largely US and Canadians sharing notes during/after WW2.
Lemme tell you about how their standard issue infantry weapons are basically no bullshit, more reliable and rugged and practical versions of what we use.
When the Canadian ceases being polite, know that you have fucked up royally.
I mean… its worse than that.
Its definitive proof that we live in an anti-meritocratic society, that is ruled by nepotism and violent and dangerous sociopaths.
Yes, its violence if it goes through a complex system for the violence to happen, is done indirectly.
So yeah, our lives are ruled (and ruined) by utterly incompetent dangerous sociopaths, who will gleefully destroy the entire economy because… they like buzzwords and feeling like they are smart.
We either need to kill these people, or they will kill all of us, just give it a decade.
… sigh …
Of all the degenerate things I’ve done as a horny kid, fucking my McDonalds meal is not one of them.
… but, its a fucking hilarious typo, so it stays, lol
Wtf, that’s a medium from like pre-covid.
Oh well, restaurants were neat, time to learn how to coom.
EDIT:
… cook.
… … … god, damnit.
… I have not heard that phrase before, but if you mean I’ve hired an escort I found on lemmy, no, I haven’t.
I’m currently crippled and do PT all day everyday, I am essentially physically incapable of fucking, much less walking normally, at the moment.
Would be a waste of money.
I just get bored and have too much time to fall down rabbit holes.
More realistically, OF models either hire off shore people, or construct rent and customize LLM models, to have those flirting conversations with sad, lonely nerds.
The… old joke in the 90s/00s was that on the internet, girl is just an acronym that means Guy In Real Life.
Perhaps ironically, one of the main things that Andrew Tate, of all people, did, that earned him a lot of money early on… was that he handled the actual chats with the uh, Johns I guess, with his cam-girls’ chats.
Because he was much more skilled at being manipulative, getting money out of them (and lets be real, he probably stole a fair number of cc numbers and identities as well).
So uh yeah, even if you see pretty pictures and videos, you still never really know who (or what) you’re chatting with, whether it be OF or some ERP discord or anything.
Though, there are still OF and escorts and camgirls and such who do actually conduct their own communications, due to either having a smaller clientelle base, or just very much preferring to do their own comms.
We also have all this on lemmy, too, mainly on lemmynsfw, though its much smaller in scope, and it is least, you know, contained to the kinds of comms you would hope it would be in.
A good number of lemmynsfw accounts/posters link to their OF, and hell, I’ve managed to go a few links further with some of them and find out that they are also actual escorts as well, with specific websites explaining services, pricing, and their travel schedules and what not.
I got 135 once as a kid, and then as an older kid, younger adult, studied up on and learned many of the flaws with IQ testing, one of many being that… you can study for them, and perform better.
That’s not supposed to be possible if it is measuring some kind of fundamental, inherent quality about you that cannot meaningfully change.
Welp.
Never seen squirrels fucking before.
… how odd is it that I’ve never seen squirrels copulating, either in media or irl…
…but I have actually seen two Bald Eagles in their falling-death-embrace thing, in person, through binoculars?
Well you never explicitly said that, but given the tenor of your earlier replies… you didn’t really seem to place much focus on it, instead saying it would have been a footnote in British history.